Presented by Professor R. Coupland, C.I.E. (Beit Professor of Colonial History in the University of Oxford)

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the end of the Parliamentary struggle for slave emancipation carried on by Wilberforce and Buxton. Professor Coupland tells tonight the story of the struggle that began when Buxton tabled his first motion in 1823, and ended in 1833, after ten years of incessant labour.